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50/50
Comedy, Drama
- Rating: 3/5
Mortal illness can strengthen one's resolve---that's what happens, thankfully, with this cancer drama that builds to the confidently sincere movie you hoped it would be, after dithering around in tired cutesiness. Adam (Gordon-Levitt) is our young, cool-headed...
1969
Film
Thompson's evocation of the spirit of the '60s protest is most moving when it abandons the soapbox and concentrates on domestic discord. We follow the fortunes of college buddies Ralph (Downey) and Scott (Sutherland), opposed in temperament but united...
1871
Film
McMullen's film about the Paris Commune offers a stirring rendition of the 'Internationale' sung, at a moment of seeming defeat, by the actors in Ramborde's Theatre in Paris, as reactionary government forces close in to remove, as it were, the masses...
45365
- Rating: 4/5
Alternating between stunning fixed takes and quick you-are-there camera movements, Bill and Turner Ross’s portrait of their tiny Ohio hometown (the title is its zip code) weaves a hypnotic tapestry out of everyday banalities: barbershop conversations,...
9
- Rating: 3/5
We’re dropped into the world of 9 much like its titular character is: with little sense of where we are and without the words, at first, to describe it. There’s nothing but desolation and ruin all around—the kind of junkyard postapocalypse so beloved...
2012
- Rating: 2/5
Huge-iosity has no truer practitioner than Roland Emmerich, the demolitions expert behind Independence Day (the White House), Godzilla (the Brooklyn Bridge) and The Day After Tomorrow (the earth’s Northern Hemisphere). Emmerich’s films offer the rush...
1408
- Rating: 3/5
Stephen King, the author of this source material, has already done haunted hotels. So the idea of stretching what was simply supposed to be a dessert course (a short story in King’s 2000 audiobook Blood and Smoke) to a full meal speaks more to Hollywood...
$9.99
- Rating: 4/5
Initially, the stop-motion animated feature $9.99 resembles one of those foulmouthed Davey and Goliath parodies from Mad TV. Yet as the first sequence makes abundantly clear, director Tatia Rosenthal and screenwriter Etgar Keret aren’t poking fun...they’re...
2046
Drama
Wong Kar-Wai’s long-awaited, sumptuous follow-up to ‘In the Mood for Love’ makes for a rapturous cinematic experience. It’s not just the stunning production design (William Chang), exquisite camerawork (Chris Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, Kwan Pun Leung) and superbly...
11-11-11
- Rating: 1/5
Capitalizing on the once-in-a-millennium date, this weak attempt at numerological spookiness follows a novelist (Gibbs) traveling to Spain to see his dying father; he soon connects recent tragedies to the belief that the portals to Heaven and Hell will...
3
- Rating: 2/5
It's been called a magic number, something one gets "the hard way," both company and a crowd; in Tom Tykwer's eroto-art-house romantic drama, three is somehow all of these things at once. Simon (Schipper) commissions artists for corporate sculptures,...
1911
- Rating: 2/5
Curious as to what a humorless Jackie Chan--headlined historical epic about China's 1911 revolution would look like? This nationalistic period piece about the efforts to overthrow the two-millennium-old Qing dynasty delivers the answer: corny, preachy...
13
- Rating: 3/5
When George Sluizer remade his Dutch kidnapping thriller The Vanishing in Hollywood, the results were disastrous. Thankfully, Georgian director Gla Babluani fares much better with the stateside redo of his own 2005 black-and-white French nail-biter 13...
1 + 1 = 3
Film
A modestly engaging, low-key feminist movie about an unmarried actress in Munich who becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she meets on a winter sports holiday. In the end she...
54
Film
It's 1979, and naive adonis Shane O'Shea (Phillippe) is sick of his grey New Jersey existence. Entranced by a photo of soap star Julie Black (Campbell), he visits her New York hangout, Studio 54. Club boss Steve Rubell (Myers) takes a fancy to him, and...
1886
Food & Drink, Nightlife
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Pasadena will never be as cool as Silver Lake or Downtown, but at least it’s trying with the inception of 1886. Aidan Demarest (Neat) and Marcos Tell (The Varnish) make a great team—they had previously opened First & Hope together—so it was no surprise...
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1776
Musicals
Straightforward transfer of the Broadway musical by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone about the conception and passing of the American Declaration of Independence. Suspense mounts as the nays change to yeas, and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson do...
'68
Film
Kovacs' episodic attempt to evoke the trippy, dippy and momentous days of '68 centres on San Francisco, where Hungarian exile Zoltan Szabo (Tecsi) and family are putting the final touches to their newly acquired ethnic restaurant. Throughout, radio bulletins,...
300
- Rating: 2/5
Military historians, armchair generals and dudes who airbrush murals on Chevy vans have a soft spot for the Battle of Thermopylae, in which King Leonidas (Butler) led 300 Spartans against the entire Persian army in 480 B.C. For comic-book writer-artist...
24
The season-in-one-day gimmick that is 24’s trademark means that Jack Bauer could theoretically have experienced two weeks of postcrisis R&R during a hiatus that lasted eight months for viewers. Instead, gaps of 18 months to three years separate Jack’s...
1/3
A young Buddhist monk (Velon) who spends his days drawing pictures in Washington Square Park and his evenings meditating in his St. Marks Place apartment becomes obsessed with his next-door neighbor (Gitelman), a teenage S&M prostitute, in this intriguing...
360
- Rating: 2/5
Round and round and round we go; when the “we’re all connected” movies will stop, nobody knows. Fernando Meirelles’s 360 is neither the best nor the worst of a genre that claims Max Ophüls’s La Ronde as its zenith and Paul Haggis’s Crash as its barrel-scraper....
2012
Action and adventure, Fantasy films
- Rating: 4/5
Read the director's guide the perfect disaster movie hereLet’s get the sniffy movie-snob protests out of the way. Yes, ‘2012’ is infantile. Yes, it treats the deaths of six billion people as little more than a tragic footnote. Yes, it’s about as interested...
1941
Comedy
Spielberg's extravagant folie de grandeur, a madcap comedy recreation of an allegedly true story, with Hollywood suffering from mass panic when it's thought that a Japanese submarine is about to lead an invasion force into California. The period sets...